Folios 284-287. Letter dated at Lisburn from the Duke of Schomberg to the King. As...

Folios 284-287. Letter dated at Lisburn from the Duke of Schomberg to the King. As to musters and recruiting. He is daily expecting the King's orders and also some money, the wind being favourable. Complains of the Admiralty not sending small warships to escort the merchant vessels. The lack of money is a great prejudice to the King's service; the troops perish for want of accommodation. It is thought that the post may be best sent by way of Scotland. He presses the suggestion for obtaining the use of 'les petits charéttes d'Irland' for conveying provisions. He is told by the oldest people of this country what Cromwell did when he had completed his conquest of it; sends a paper from which the King will see how things have been disposed since that time and can give orders on what he approves. Difficulties in supplying the outlying garrisons. Van Homrigh is incapable here alone and Robinson, his associate, is always in England, where Schomberg hopes he will make sufficient provision. He believes that Poth will be the bearer of this dispatch. Poth is a good gunner, and will, Schomberg believes, ask for Glaum's post, to serve in Holland. Schomberg says that the King knows these sort of people better than he does and so will only remark that we have need of Germans in the capacity. Strangers are more capable than the English who have not seen service. There is an Englishman named Coval who, I believe, has pretensions [to the post?], but he does not seem to Schomberg to be very capable.